Conflicts are brought up, but then are resolved quickly and thus unrealistically. It’s a movie of two halves, lots of meaty ideas, but speedy execution. We see a dude hilariously drop his arm on the ground to prove a point, and a few coughs here and there but for the most part the Mu look ready to roll and you realise the movie isnt going to bother to stick to its own rules. Well, not that the movie remembers this plot point after a while, forgetful as it is with many details. Of deficiencies they suffer from ranging from deformities, asthma, blindness, etc. The Mu themselves are a fantastic concept, not merely generic super-humans, their telepathic powers are actually a method of balance and compensation to make up for a variety with the groovy aesthetics of 1960's and 70's applied to cityscapes. has a great dystopic setting where people don’t give birth naturally anymore but are born from test tubes, where couples are randomly assigned babies to rear, where another breed of being, telepathic people called Mu, are persecuted and hunted down by esper interrogators.īasically it’s a fascinating mix of Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, you name it and its influence is all over Terra e. Now, Jomy has a choice: keep the Mu in hiding, or declare war on humanity to realize their dream of returning to Terra. Nearing the end of his life, Soldier Blue transfers his memories to Jomy and names him the next leader of the Mu. Jomy makes his escape on a Mu ship and is shocked to learn that he himself is an esper and that the government has sentenced him to death. Suddenly, he hears the voice of Soldier Blue, the leader of the Mu, calling out to him to hold onto his memories. When Jomy Marquis Shin's birthday arrives and the time comes for him to take his Adulthood Exam, he is shocked to learn that all of his childhood memories are going to be erased. Supercomputers control the government, babies are grown in artificial wombs and assigned parents randomly, and at age 14, children take an 'Adulthood Exam.' Humanity's greatest enemy is the 'Mu'-humans who have developed into espers. In the five hundred years since Earth's environment was destroyed and the planet came to be known as Terra, humans have created a society in space that is entirely logical.

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